That's Not A Knife

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

Measure a thousand times and cut once. - Turkish Proverb

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. - Rabindranath Tagore

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. - W H Auden

You trust your mother, but you cut the cards. - Unknown

Don't dig your grave with a knife and fork. - English Proverb

Eunuch: A man who has had his works cut out for him. - Robert Byrne

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards. - Henny Youngman

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. - Harrison Ford

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin. - Simone Schwarz-Bart

What is drama after all, but life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred Hitchcock

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. - Al Bernstein

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda

The grass may be greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut. - Little Richard

Everyone should be paid what he is worth, no matter how big a pay cut is involved. - Unknown

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. - Criss Jami

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. - Yogi Berra

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

The greatest men have been those who have cut their way to success through difficulties. - F.W. Robertson

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke

A gentleman should never leave the house without a sharp knife, a good watch, and great hat. - Unknown

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - Virginia Woolf

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. - George Burns

I could juggle anything in my day: balls, cigar boxes, knives. But I could never juggle my income tax. - WC Fields

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. - George W. Bush

Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water. - Bob Hope

Did you hear about the auto worker who was offered a position as president of a bank but couldn't afford the pay cut? - Unknown

Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit - Life! - Emily Dickinson

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. - James Lovelock

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. - General Colin Powell

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. - Stephen King

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. - Joan Rivers

Character is not cut in marble, but is living and changing, and subject to disease, as our bodies are. Character is not made in a crisis - it's only exhibited. - Robert Freeman

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts. - Timothy Noah

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. - Gamal Abdul Nasser

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus' poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. - Joseph Campbell